The Bad News...

[daybrown]

Is that it is not feasible to live in a nuclear family home that uses no more than its fair share of global resources. At first, this seems realistic with solar panels, heating, geothermal or whatever. But when you amortize the costs, you can see that this needs far more than the average global income to pay for.

And even in the USA, young couples dont make that much money any more. The only way to reduce the carbon footprint and cost per capita is to return to the Neolithic communal household. The Mosou of SW China are still doing it. But the problem for us is, that we are socialized to the nuclear family model, and I dont know if we have the social skills it takes to make communal living work.

The Mosou show us that the grandmothers own the houses and the businesses, and provide on site, as needed, 24/7 childcare. This permits the adults to run everything else, the gardens and businesses; and because of the greater economy of moving from cottage industry up to small business scale, it is so efficient that the adults meet their personal and household needs on 20-25 hours per week.

*BUT* pheremones being what they are, they dont have marriage as we understand it. The hippy communes showed us that monogamy does not work for long. They also showed us that the resulting drama destroyed the ability of the group to cooperate, and most of them came apart.

But back then, it was common for young men to make 10$/hour, and with that be able to support a family. Young men still make 10$/hour, but the price of gas and everything else makes that family model unworkable today. Hence the rise in divorce and welfare. Most of the responsible young men I know are not getting married. They know they cant afford to support a family.

I think this has something to do with the rapidly rising numbers of Lesbian couples. The Lesbians I know are not stupid, are getting by with both working, but rarely have more than one kid that some man left one of them with. Its the stupid women who are having the most kids. Hence the decline in academic performance.

Bearing that in mind, what is the performance of the economy going to be when it wants to rely on this younger generation? Bouchard's longitudinal studies of identical twins that were adopted out birth to different families, who in adulthood are easily identified on the basis of personality profile and IQ tests shows a far more powerful effect of DNA endowment, or lack thereof, than educators have been wanting to admit. Head Start and similar efforts to expand opportunity have not, therefore, had the hoped for results.

Since history is largely about the activities of the power elites, its only been more recently that archeology and scholarship of obscure sources have begun to reveal what life was like for the 98% of the population living in rural areas. It does not much look what the scribes, pandering to the sensibilities of kings and the warrior class said it was.

The Latin word for a rural person was "pagan". and indeed, they kept to their pagan traditions much more than the church would have us believe. They were not that monogamous, but it didnt matter that much to the kids cause both parents still lived in the manor hall or village, and were accessible.

People didnt look for the perfect mate cause there were only a few dozen of any generation to pick from. People made do with whoever was agreeable as long as it was agreeable. Everyone they met they grew up with, and therefore didnt have the romantic illusions of modern urbanites.

Besides, lotsa people died early and often; it just didnt make sense to put that much emotional investment in anyone. Its the community that would be there for them, not the mate.

Now, if we look carefully at Bouchard's personality profiles, and others as well, we can see that many people still carry these instincts which are in conflict with the socialization of modern Christian cultures. But lacking the community where they knew everyone and everyone knew them, they try to put that attachment burden on whoever they are mated with. It dont always work, so then they look for another mate, without ever considering that what they instinctively want is a village.

But you cant just give it to them cause there is no village that has known them since childhood. You can, however, give a village to a child, and the kid will thrive in it because they have not been so brainwashed by modern neurotic romanticism. Kids inherited their emotional responses to village live over the course of the last 10,000 years. However, whether their mother's innate responses can be recovered from under a lifetime of Christian family values for the benefit of their kids remains to be seen.

If there be any women who have picked up on this problem and considered ways to deal with it, I'd appreciate the feedback. So far, the silence is deafening. For men, who so often had to flee the violence of the warrior class trying to control access to all the women, and therefore had to live in the boonies alone, the isolation of modern urban life is not so stressful.

[Johnny Electriglide]

Much is true. However, there is a difference between the barter and trade communal systems of before and true socialism. Socialism rewards those who are dumber and don't work as hard, while this was not tolerated in the communal structures of old. A lot was not tolerated, and the wisdom of old was used.
Alternative energy systems like solar and wind are only really affordable if you do them yourself. That is tough when the schools are dumbed down and insurance costs up from over-compensation, to eliminate wood and metal shop, and the home economics teachings of earlier commonality.
Humanity has so much internal variation as to be several species, and overpopulation is so far into overshoot that preventing ecological collapses is getting harder and more expensive with less time to implement.

[trave]

Hello

Sorry to hear this :(

[daybrown]

Socialism is an extension of the case work formerly done by witches and shamen who raised the kids of incompetent parents in order to maximize diversity in small gene pools. Villages and tribes took care of non-producers; the kids mite have the DNA markers for resistance to cholera, dysentery, plague...

We dont have that problem of course, but still have the instinct to care. but take a look at ; its not upta us anymore. If we want to see a sustainable system, it'll have to be in our own culture. The global population is rising too fast, with too many who are too poor to be properly nourished. this has caused mental development problems, so that while education is necessary, it is not sufficient.

Bringing more poor people into the country is only going to ruin the economy that supports the research into how to develop alternative energy and the other sustainable issues. We need to seal the border. After we do that, we can figure out what to do with the poor we already have.

Lacking that border control, as conditions become worse, more will come here, and conditions will likewise get worse here. As the website suggests, more urban sprawl, more pollution, and fewer resources per student for education. Which in turn will result in more masses more manipulated by the corporate media, and less interested in environmental solutions.

This risks economic disaster, so you may want to think about where you want to be if that happens.